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Republican People’s Party Sues Turkish Government For Aiding ISIS

The Turkish opposition party has filed a criminal lawsuit against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing him of directly supporting ISIS.  The Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) have filed a criminal complaint on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Chief Hakan Fidan and other officials on charges of “aiding and abetting a terrorist organization.” Hurriyetdailynews.com reports: CHP Deputy Chair Bülent Tezcan filed the complaints about Erdoğan, Davutoğlu, Fidan, Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan, Interior Minister Efkan Ala, former Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay, related state officials and provincial governors to the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office on March 8. Tezcan’s move followed CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s remarks accusing the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of aiding a terrorist organization by “overlooking the stockpiling of weapons by the PKK” throughout the peace process. Provincial chairs of the CHP are also expected to file similar complaints shortly. In his complaint, Tezcan claimed that since 2009 the AKP has followed a strategy simply based on encouraging the PKK toward non-conflict during election periods rather than trying to resolve the Kurdish issue sustainably. “More fatally, just in order to go through election periods calmly, the terrorist organization’s activities of transferring and piling up weaponry, both [...]